So, it is was transfer Tuesday this week and we went to the temple this morning. It was so great! It was exactly what I needed to refuel and keep on keeping on :)
This week has been fun/interesting/crazy/(
On Tuesday I was having a rough day and there wan't much sign of an "up" so i finally broke down and asked for my first blessing since the MTC. I miss getting father's belssings, but I asked Brother Potter (a seminary teacher here that is serving in the Spanish branch even though he doesn't know Spanish-he's from St. George) and he has been like a mission father for me in this area. I love him and his wife so much and they are always willing to help us at the drop of a hat. He gave me blessing that night and it was such a powerful blessing! I had Hermana Dando write it down for me and it was something I will NEVER forget! The Lord truly does know us personally because he mentioned things that he had no idea were going on in my life.I'm so grateful for that. Hermana Dando also got a blessing this week for her ankle-she's bionic :) Elder Lee gave her a blessing of healing (so it was legal) and it was-again-one of the most powerful things that I have heard. We are both just so lucky and are really gaining such a powerful testimony of the Priesthood this week. It's been a topic of discussion a lot for us.
We have been teaching a lady named Mari and she had accepted a date for March 29th! We went over with one of out members last week and watched The Restoration DVD with her. She really liked it. We talked about church and we answered a few questions that she had about prophets. She came to church on Sunday (let me tell you how not exciting daylight savings was here-but we're alive and well)and it was CRAZY! Sunday school was interesting and a little much. We talked about the organization of the Priesthood and the teacher got a little deeper into the subject than we would have liked, but it was a great lesson! Relief Society was interesting. It was a little hectic, but the lesson was great. We never got a chance to talk to Mari about what she thought about church because she left with her two daughters a little bit early from RS because she had to get home to make dinner for her husband. I have come to realize that if Hispanic women die, their husbands will probably starve to death! Maybe that's just men in general... :)
Our most interesting day was definitely Saturday. We taught a whole slew of people and did some things that only missionaries could get away with. We were tracting and saw this very well-kept lawn and Hna Dando and I decided that whoever lived there deserved to be complimented on their yard, and to be taught the gospel. Well, long story short, it turned into an hour and a half long circular borderline-argument about whether or not Adam and Eve could have children before they ate the fruit and if they really had agency before they did that and then why there was so much pain and suffering on the earth. And THEN, the guy tried to tell me that I don't have a testimony of the Book of Mormon...that would be the closest I have ever come to losing my cool on a doorstep. If there is only one thing that I know in the world it is this: THE BOOK OF MORMON IS TRUE!!! That is a FACT! And if it is true, then Joseph Smith really DID see God the Father and Jesus Christ and he really WAS called as a prophet of God and that the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-Day Saints really IS the Lord's kingdom on earth again and that I AM called as a representative of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So DON"T GO THERE! Yeah...we miraculously got out and we just sat in the car and screamed a little bit. And then we got ice cream with ASL and life was better :)
We also met a man named Matthew. Funny story: we were driving around after dark on one of the most ghetto roads in upper Stockton-or so we are told...we've never actually seen anything-and we see this guy pushing his truck so we jump out and offer to help him. We end up going to the gas station and getting a gallon of gas for him to put in his truck and then he was like, "I know God is real. Where else do you find two young white women in a predominately black neighborhood after dark willing to jump out and help a big black man push his ghetto truck on the streets?" We were able to teach him and give him as a referral to the elders. We just laughed and then got in the car, realizing what we had just done and said a quick prayer that everything turned out alright. God really does protect his missionaries :)
The Elders had some fun with us on transfer calls. For outside reasons that don't need to be explained we had a pretty great assurance that we were staying together. Then the ZL's call and tell me that I am getting transferred to Manteca and I seriously started to cry. We both did a little. I actually got the whole thing on camera so when I send my next SD card home you can all watch the hilarity of my face :)
We read this talk in the Ensign this week as an apartment and we were all floored by how bold it was so I am going to attach it in case you don't want to be not lazy and open the Ensign. Here it is :)
Well, I love you all tons! MWAH!
Love, Hermana Freestone
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